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Pairwise comparisons across species are problematic when analyzing functional genomic data
Edited by David M. Hillis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, and approved December 1, 2017 (received for review May 8, 2017)

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- Published in issue January 16, 2018.
- Published first January 4, 2018.
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- aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912;
- bDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095;
- cDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616;
- dSars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen 5006, Norway
Edited by David M. Hillis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, and approved December 1, 2017 (received for review May 8, 2017)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: casey.dunn{at}yale.edu.
↵2Present address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Author contributions: C.W.D., F.Z., C.M., S.S., and A.H. designed research; C.W.D. and F.Z. performed research; C.W.D. and F.Z. analyzed data; and C.W.D., F.Z., C.M., S.S., and A.H. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1707515115/-/DCSupplemental.
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